IEM Rio CSGO Main 2022: Challengers Stage set to start out

  ❘   Revealed: 2022-10-31T10:15:00

  ❘   Up to date: 2022-10-31T10:27:06

The Rio Main is lastly occurring. After being delayed two years in the past, the IEM Rio Main 2022 will lastly carry Counter-Strike’s greatest stage to Brazil. Sustain with the motion right here with all of the pre-event particulars, together with the format, schedule, and certified groups.

Come to Brazil, they stated. Now Counter-Strike’s finest is doing simply that. The IEM Rio Main 2022 brings the height of the sport’s competitors to the CS:GO-loving nation with a $1 million prize purse and the illustrious title on supply.

After being canceled in 2020, Valve and ESL have adopted by means of on their promise to carry the most important stage to Rio in 2022 as 24 of the world’s finest Counter-Strike groups combat it out. 

With motion simply across the nook, sustain with all of the IEM Rio Main 2022 pre-event information proper right here together with the format and who’s certified.

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IEM Rio Main 2022: Streams

Being an ESL-run occasion, the IEM Rio Main 2022 might be streamed on all ESL CSGO Twitch channels. In case you can’t discover the sport you need on the primary stream, be sure you take a look at the B and C streams ⁠— all of which have been embedded under.

Miss a sport? Meet up with VODs on the ESL Archives YouTube channel.

Fundamental stream

B stream

C stream

IEM Rio Main 2022: Format & schedule

The IEM Rio Main 2022 is deliberate to happen on October 31 to November 13, 2022. It is going to be break up into three totally different phases: Challengers, Legends, and Champions. That is akin to codecs utilized in previous Majors.

Challengers and Legends work on a five-game Swiss format, the place groups must win three matches to qualify for the following stage. Lose three matches and also you’re eradicated.

The Champions Stage is do-or-die, although, as the highest eight groups combat by means of a single-elimination bracket to cement their place in Counter-Strike historical past. With $1.25 million on the road, the winner might be strolling away with an honest chunk of change ⁠— and a slot at IEM Katowice 2023.

Stephanie Lindgren for PGL

FaZe Clan took residence the final CS:GO Main in Antwerp earlier in 2022.

The occasion will run as follows:

Dates: October 31-November 3

• Challengers Stage: October 31-November 3
• Legends Stage: November 5-8
• Champions Stage: November 10-13

New Challengers Stage (October 31 – November 3)

Day 1: October 31

IEM Rio Main 2022: All certified groups

Twenty-four groups will qualify for the IEM Rio Main 2022 through the Regional Main Rating (RMR) occasions in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

The eight-best groups from the qualifying occasions (seven from Europe and one from the Americas) have made it into the Legends Stage ⁠— straight into the Prime 16. The opposite 16 should battle their manner by means of the Challengers Stage, which may even embody two groups from Asia-Pacific.

You will discover the complete slot breakdown for the IEM Rio Main 2022 under.

Legends groups